On October 2, 2001, Swissair was no more. Because the airline had run out of money, the aircraft had to stay on the ground.

Back for a new year and new set of models reviews. To start out we are taking a look at an Airliner that has never gotten as much coverage of as many others have. Specifically, we are going to look at Atlantis' 1/135th scale Convair 990 kit.

Events 3.5

1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier. 1960 – Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members. 1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee. 1963 – Aeroflot Flight 191 crashes while landing at Aşgabat International Airport, killing 12. 1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. 1966 – BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board. 1967 – Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 crashes near Marseilles, Ohio, killing 38. 1968 – Air France Flight 212 crashes into La Grande Soufrière, killing all 63 aboard. 1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. 1973 – An Iberia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 collide in mid-air with a Spantax Convair 990 Coronado over Nantes, France, killing all 68 people abord the DC-9, including music manager Michael Jeffery. 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. 1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. 1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world. 1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. 1991 – Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45. 1993 – Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83. 2001 – In Mina, Saudi Arabia, 35 pilgrims are killed in a stampede on the Jamaraat Bridge during the Hajj. 2002 – An earthquake in Mindanao, Philippines, kills 15 people and injures more than 100. 2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing. 2011 – An Antonov An-148 crashes in Russia's Alexeyevsky District, Belgorod Oblast during a test flight, killing all seven aboard. 2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar. 2012 – Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a hair Salon in Bucharest, Romania. 2018 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin. 2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 – Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. 2023 – The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two centre-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time. 2023 – A group of four prisoners escape from the Nouakchott Civil Prison, before being caught the next day.

Convair 990 Coronado

Swissair Convair Coronado by Vintage Cars & People Via Flickr: A Swissair Convair CV-990 pictured on the tarmac of Paris Orly airport. Several Sud Aviation Caravelles can be seen in the background. Here's some additional information on the aircraft registered HB-ICB. Country of origin: unknown

Love isn't real but that's OK bc the convair 990 Coronado is

Convair CV 990 A “Coronado” (1970s)

A Convair 990 Coronado, courtesy of San Diego Air and Space Museum.

Swissair Convair 990 Coronado

lot 62 wymyslona historia

Convair 990 Coronado lot 62 

samolot byl wyczarterowany przez  Swissair i nasa

byl 12,12.2006

samolot nalezal do lini lotniczej china swissair airlines 

k jan kojsban ur w 1930-weteran 2 wojny swiatowej

2p jan kinos ur w 1932 rowniez  weteran 2 wojny swiatowej

m.p jan sersda ur w 1910 weteran 1 i 2 wojny swiatowej 

121 pasazerow i 9 czlonkow zalogi 

samolot przylecial z Port lotniczy Miyazaki przylecial do Port lotniczy Kōchi leci do  Nowy port lotniczy Kitakyūshū wsrod pasazerow byl karol kim 

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k klapy 15

2 p wywarzenie 100

m.p silniki autopilot swiala wlonczone 

k zaplon wlonczone

2 p prosze zapiac pasy

m.p cisnienie w pozadku

w startuj pas 2

k pas 2 pelna moc 

2 p 90 wezlow 

m.p wjechalismi na cos

k startujemy 

w palicie sie

k spadamy bum

zginelo 100 ze 121 pasazerow i 4 z 9 czlonkow zalogi i 2 z 3 pasazerow 

zginelo 106 pasazerow przezylo 27 pasazerow 

katastrofe badala armia nasa i ntsb 

wojsko znalazlo ocalalych

dowodzil wojskiem jacek bik i on nimi dowodzil 

nagle przyszedl do nich kontrolej john bon

g co sie stalo

j oni sie palili 

9 rozumiem dowidzenia 

okazalo sie ze przed nimi lecial a330 lini lotniczej eva air 

okazalo sie ze kawalek metalu im przeskodzil

Convair CV-990 Coronado flew by Spantax - PJ de Jong

Swissair was founded as the national airline of Switzerland on March 26, 1931.  

A Convair 990 Coronado, courtesy of San Diego Air and Space... http://ift.tt/2sHV8qx from @humanoidhistory

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El último vuelo del Convair Coronado de Spantax

El pasado 31 de marzo, el Pleno del Ayuntamiento de Palma dio apoyo a la iniciativa de la Asociación Amics de Son Sant Joan de restaurar el Convair CV-990 30-A5 Coronado de la desaparecida aerolínea Spantax, primera chárter creada en España. Asimismo, instó al Consell de Mallorca a buscar una u...

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Swissair Convair 990 service. When flying was fun.

Convair 990-30A-6 Coronado [N990AC] by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 30-10-05. Built in 1963 as 'OB-OAG-728' for APSA Peru, reregistered as 'OB-R-728' in 1964. In 1972 it became 'N990AC'. Initially stored in Tucson, it moved to Marana in 1973 and was later scrapped. It's nose is now stored in the ARM Scrapyard, Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona. 09-02-2014